Re: Open Software License v2.1

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:43:48PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> On the other hand, lawsuits attempting to enforce "patents" on software
>> *are* intrinsically bad for free software.
> 
> This argument says that since it's bad for nuclear power plant
> technicians to enforce patents on software, the software should not be
> permitted to be used in nuclear power plants. Therefore you are a gerbil.

Argument A:

Since software patents are bad, people who enforce patents against a
piece of software should not be allowed to use that piece of software.

Argument B:

Since enforcement of software patents by nuclear power plant technicians
is bad, nuclear power plants should not be allowed to use a given piece
of software.

Please demonstrate the equivilence of these arguments.

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